From our experience at CPT, some of the direct benefits of Manual Therapy include:

• Improvement of mental outlook

• Allowing for better handling of pressure

• Reinforces positive attitude

• Promotes relaxed states of mental alertness

• Enhances calm and creative thinking

Manual physical therapy techniques aim to relax tense muscles and restricted joints to decrease pain and increase flexibility. Mobilization/manipulation, which uses measured movements of varying speed (slow to fast), force (gentle to forceful), and distances (called ‘amplitude’) to twist, pull, or push bones and joints into position. This can help loosen tight tissues around a joint, reduce pain in a joint and surrounding tissue, and help with flexibility and alignment.

Manual therapy has been shown to decrease levels of cortisol in the body, in addition to triggering a host of brain chemistry responses that can result in lasting feelings of relaxation, lowered stress and improved mood.